The Poetry Poll

The Favorite Poems Of Poetry Readers Around The World

50,000 People Voted On Line Between October 15 1992 and August 28 1998

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Voting results so far:

The Favorite Poems Of Poetry Readers Around The World:

Thomas, Dylan: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: commentary (3,102 Votes)
Blake, William :The Tyger (2,785 Votes)
Poe, Edgar Allan : The Raven (2,714 Votes)
Frost, Robert : Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (1,378 Votes)
Carroll, Lewis : Jabberwocky (1,269 Votes)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett : How Do I Love Thee?, Let Me Count The Ways (911 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily : There's A Certain Slant of Light (896 Votes)
Shakespeare, William : Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? (890 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily : Because I Could Not Stop For Death: commentary (887 Votes)
Frost, Robert : Mending Wall (853 Votes)
Whitman, Walt : Song of Myself (828 Votes)
Ginsberg, Allen: Howl (788 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily : I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died
Eliot, T. S.: Wasteland (769 Votes)
Byron, Lord: She Walks In Beauty (760 Votes)
Whitman, Walt : O Captain! My Captain (758 Votes)
Browning, Robert: My Last Duchess (753 Votes)
Eliot, T. S.: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (751 Votes)
Williams, William Carlos: The Red Wheelbarrow:  commentary (747 Votes)
Herrick, Robert: To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time (740 Votes)
Cummings, E. E. : Anyone Lived In A Little How Town
Marvell, Andrew: To His Coy Mistress (736 Votes)
Stevens, Wallace: The Emperor of Icecream (728 Votes)
Burns, Robert : O, My Luve Is Like A Red Red Rose (A Red, Red Rose) (723 Votes)
Brooks, Gwendolyn: We Real Cool (717 Votes)
Frost, Robert:Nothing Gold Can Stay (716 Votes)
Ginsberg, Allen: America (712 Votes)
Powers, Margaret Fishback : Footprints: commentary (710 Votes)
Cummings, E. E.: My Sweet Old Etcetera(707 Votes)
Donne, John: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (704 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: Safe In Alabaster Chambers (703 Votes)

Silverstein, Shel: Where The Sidewalk Ends (700 Votes)
Angelou, Maya: Phenomenal Woman: commentary (687 Votes)
Frost, Robert: The Road Not Taken (680 Votes)
Carroll, Lewis: The Walrus And The Carpenter (675 Votes)
Moore, Clement Clarke: A Visit From St. Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) (673 Votes)

Blake, William: Introduction to Songs of Innocence: Piping Down The Valleys Wild (666 Votes)
Keats, John: Ode On A Grecian Urn: commentary (664 Votes)
Stevens, Wallace: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (661 Votes)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: The Charge of The Light Brigade (658 Votes)
Poe, Edgar Allan: The Bells (656 Votes)
Ralegh, Sir Walter: The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd (654 Votes)
Ransome, John Crowe: Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter (652 Votes)
Hughes, Langston: Harlem (650 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: This Is My Letter To The World (647 Votes)
Owen, Wilfred: Dulce Et Decorum Est: commentary (644 Votes)
Yeats, William Butler: The Lake Isle Of Innisfree (640 Votes)
Stevens, Wallace: Disillusionment of Ten O'clock (638 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close: commentary (633 Votes)
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: My Lute Awake (632 Votes)
Blake, William: Song: How Sweet I Roam'd From Field To Field (631 Votes)
Ginsberg, Allen: A Supermarket In California (625 Votes)
Poe, Edgar Allen: To Helen (613 Votes)
Carroll, Lewis: The White Knight's Song (611 Votes)
Hughes, Lanston: The Negro Speaks Of Rivers (610 Votes)
Keats, John: Ode To A Nightingale (606 Votes)

Roethke, Theodore: My Papa's Waltz

Arnold, Matthew: Dover Beach
Cummings, E. E.: Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind (602 Votes)
Poe, Edgar Allan: Annabel Lee (590 Votes)
Plath, Sylvia: Daddy (587 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: Success Is Counted Sweetest (580 Votes)
Bible: The Lord Is My Shepherd (The 23^rd Psalm) (576 Votes)
Heaney, Seamus: Mid-Term Break (573 Votes)
Cummings, E. E.: Spring Is Like A Perhaps Hand
Owen, Wilfred: Anthem For Doomed Youth
Hughes, Langston: Third Degree (572 Votes)
Whitman, Walt: I Hear America Singing (570 Votes)

Arnold, Matthew: Lines Written In Kensington Gardens
Cummings, E. E.: What If As Much As A Which of A Wind (567 Votes)
Williams, William Carlos: This Is Just To Say (564 Votes)
Frost, Robert: After Apple Picking (559 Votes)
Po, Li (translated by Ezra Pound): The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter (555 Votes)
Cummings, E. E.: Buffalo Bill's (553 Votes)
Auden, W. H. The Unknown Citizen, JS/07/M/378, This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State (539 Votes)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Ode To The West Wind (538 Votes)
Clifton, Lucille: Good Times (527 Votes)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
Marlowe, Christopher: The Passionate Shepherd To His Love (526 Votes)
Eliot, T. S.: The Hollow Men: commentary (524 Votes)

Housman, A. E.: To An Athlete Dying Young
Donne, John: Song: Go and Catch A Falling Star

Wordsworth, William: I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud (522 Votes)
Whitman, Walt: A Noiseless, Patient Spider (500 Votes)
Yeats, William Butler: Sailing To Byzantium (498 Votes)
Lawrence, D. H.: Whales Weep Not! (496 Votes)
Donne, John: Death, Be Not Proud
McCrae, John: In Flanders Field (495 Votes)
Rich, Adrienne: Aunt Jennifer's Tigers (494 Votes)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Kubla Khan
Walker, Alice: In These Dissenting Times (493 Votes)
Keats, John: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (490 Votes)
Browning,  Elizabeth Barrett: If Thou Must Love Me (488 Votes)
Shakespeare, William: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
Frost, Robert: Fire And Ice (486 Votes)
Brooks, Gwendolyn: A Song In The Front Yard
Burns, Robert: Auld Lang Syne (485 Votes)
Dickey, James: Cherry Log Road (481 Votes)
Housman, A. E.: The Lovliest Of Trees
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Ozymandias (480 Votes)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: The Lady of Shalott (478 Votes)
Levertov, Denise: Hypocrite Women (475 Votes)
Kerouac, Jack: Hitch Hiker (470 Votes)
Shakespeare, William: To Be Or Not To Be (469 Votes)
Donne, John: Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God (467 Votes)
Frost, Robert: Home Burial (454 Votes)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: Pied Beauty
Hardy, Thomas: The Darkling Thrush (450 Votes)
Olds, Sharon: That Year (444 Votes)
Lowell, Robert: Skunk Hour (437 Votes)
Tsvetayeva, Marina: After Russia (420 Votes)
Suess, Dr.: Green Eggs And Ham (418 Votes)
Yeats, William Butler: The Second Coming (416 Votes)
Sexton, Anne: The Truth The Dead Know (415 Votes)
Baudelaire, Charles: To A Creole Lady (413 Votes)
Akmontova, Anna: Requiem (411 Votes)
Yeats, William Butler: Leda And The Swan (407 Votes)
Axel, Brett : A Good Day Made (402 Votes)
Auden, W. H.: O What Is That Sound (400 Votes)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: The Windhover (396 Votes)
Pound, Ezra: In A Station Of The Metro
Kilmer, Joyce: Trees
Lear, Edward: The Owl And The Pussycat (395 Votes)
Milne,  A. A.: They're Changing Guards At Buckingham Palace
Whitman, Walt: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed
Jonson, Ben: To Celia (Drink Me Only With Thine Eyes) (393 Votes)
Sexton, Anne: Cinderella (392 Votes)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: Splender Falls on Castle Walls
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: My Lost Youth (389 Votes)
Blake, William: And Did Those Feet In Ancient Times (388 Votes)
Wordsworth, William: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge (385 Votes)
Rich, Adrienne: After Dark (379 Votes)
Whitman, Walt: To A Locomotive in Winter (367 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: I Died For Beauty -- But Was Scarce (363 Votes)
Ginsberg, Allen: Kaddish (351 Votes)
Neruda, Pablo: Sexual Water (342 Votes)
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence: Casey At The Bat (340 Votes)
Sexton, Anne: All My Pretty Ones (338 Votes)
Brooks, Gwendolyn: The Mother (324 Votes)
Yeats, William Butler, Wild Swans at Coole (320 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: I Dwell In Possibility (311 Votes)
Frost, Robert: Birches (300 Votes)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: A Psalm of Life (298 Votes)
Housman, A. E.: When I Was One And Twenty (290 Votes)
Eliot, T. S.: Sweeney Among The Nightingales (289 Votes)
Forche, Carolyn: The Colonel (287 Votes)
Inez, Colette: The Woman Who Loved Worms (286 Votes)
Rich, Adrienne: Diving Into The Wreck (285 Votes)
Keats, John: Lines To The Mermaid Tavern (283 Votes)
Sappho: To Andromeda (281 Votes)
Sexton, Anne: Hansel And Gretel (279 Votes)
Kipling, Rudyard: Gunga Din (274 Votes)
Frost, Robert: Provide, Provide (273 Votes)
Kipling, Rudyard: Danny Deever (270 Votes)
Baraka, Amiri: Wise (268 Votes)
Nash, Ogden: Very Like A Whale (264 Votes)
Frost, Robert: Directive
Dickinson, Emily: She Dealt Her Pretty Words Like Blades (263 Votes)
Blake, William: The Lamb (262 Votes)
Ransome, John Crow: Piazza Piece (261 Votes)
Harjo, Joy: Perhaps The World Ends Here (260 Votes)
Whitman, Walt: Miracles
Hacker, Marilyn: Sonnet For Eva (259 Votes)
Alexie, Sherman : Capital Punishment
Bishop, Elizabeth: Filling Station (258 Votes)
Stevens, Wallace: Anecdote Of The Jar
Baraka, Amiri: Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (257 Votes)
Frost, Robert: The Gift Outright (255 Votes)
Carroll, Lewis: The Hunting Of The Snark  (254 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: I Had No Time To Hate (253 Votes)
Harjo, Joy: The Creation Story (251 Votes)
Herrick, Robert: Upon Julia's Clothes (249 Votes)
Knight, Etheridge: Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminally Insane (246 Votes)
Yeats, William Butler: Long Legged Fly
Browning, Robert: Home Thoughts From Abroad (241 Votes)
Field, Eugene: A Dutch Lullaby (Wynken, Blynken, And Nod) (238 Votes)
Keats, John: Hyperion (236 Votes)
McKay, Claude: America (234 Votes)
Sexton, Anne: Wanting To Die (233 Votes)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: Heaven-Haven (230 Votes)
Stevens, Wallace: The Man with the Blue Guitar (229 Votes)
Eliot, T. S.: Preludes (227 Votes)
Parker, Dorothy: Love Song (220 Votes)
Nash, Ogden: Tin Wedding Whistle (219 Votes)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: To Jane (217 Votes)
Homer: The Odyssey (214 Votes)
Key, Francis Scott: The Star Spangled Banner (213 Votes)
Whitman, Walt: I Sing The Body Electric (212 Votes)
Neruda, Pablo: America, I Do Not Invoke Your Name In Vain (210 Votes)
Blake, William: Never Seek to Tell thy Love (209 Votes)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Give All to Love
Hardy, Thomas: Neutral Tones (207 Votes)
Masters, Edgar Lee: Anne Rutledge (206 Votes)
Donne, John: The Relic
Robinson, Edwin Arlington: Richard Cory (205 Votes)
McLeish, Archibald: Ars Poetica (202 Votes)
Browning, Robert : Meeting At Night (201 Votes)
Thoreau, Henry David: Smoke (200 Votes)
unknown: A Young Lady Of Spain (197 Votes)
Eliot, T. S.: Portrait of a Lady (196 Votes)
Frost, Robert: Accidently On Purpose (195 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: I Never Lost As Much But Twice
Shakespeare, William: When Daisies Pied
Brooks, Gwendolyn: Sadie and Maud
Crane, Hart: To a Brooklyn Bridge
Lawrence, D. H.: Poverty (194 Votes)
Ginsberg, Allen: Who Runs America?
unknown: There Once Was A Man From Nantucket
Cummings, E. E.: Old Age Sticks (193 Votes)
Wylie, Elinor: Let No Charitable Hope (192 Votes)
Brooks, Gwendolyn: My Little 'Bout-Town Gal
Frost, Robert: Design
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: The Sound of The Sea
Plath, Sylvia: Lady Lazarus
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Merciles Beautè
Rossetti, Christina Georgiana: Boats Sail On The Rivers (190 Votes)
Shakespeare, William: All The World's A Stage
Kipling, Rudyard: The Pilgrim's Way (188 Votes)
Wordsworth, William: The World Is Too Much With Us
Dunbar, Paul Laurence: The Paradox
Mandelstam, Osip: The Age
Creeley, Robert: I Know A Man
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: Binsey Poplars (187 Votes)
Dove, Rita: My Mother Enters The Work Force
Dickinson, Emily: 'Tis Customary As We Part (186 Votes)
Sexton, Anne: Housewife
Stevens, Wallace: Sunday Morning
Brooks, Gwendolyn: The Preacher: Ruminates Behind The Sermon
Gluck, Louise: The School Children
Roethke, Theodore: The Waking
Smith, Stevie: Not Waving But Drowning
Baraka, Amiri: Are Their Blues Singers In Russia? (184 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: It dropped so low in my regard
Browning, Robert : Wanting Is -- What?
Knight, Etheridge: The Idea Of Ancestry (183 Votes)
Hughes, Langston: Theme For English B (181 Votes)
Hardy, Thomas: His Immortality (179 Votes)
Kilmer, Joyce: Roofs (178 Votes)
Burns, Robert: My Highland Lassie, O (176 Votes)
Harjo, Joy: She Had Some Horses (175 Votes)
Corso, Gregory: 2 Weird Happenings In Harlem (172 Votes)
Kerouac, Jack: The Trashing Doves
Keats, John: La Belle Dame sans Merci
Basho, Matsuo: An Account Of A Weatherbeaten Journey
Neruda, Pablo: Fleas Interest Me So Much
Keats, John: On Death
Heaney, Seamus: Bogland
Tennyson, Alfred Lord:Sir Galahad (170 Votes)
Frost, Robert: The Listeners
Larkin, Philip: I Remember, I Remember
Plath, Sylvia: All The Dead Dears
Gray, Thomas: Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
Hughes, Ted: Hawk Roosting (169 Votes)
Frost, Robert: Two Tramps In Mud Time
Rimbaud, Arthur: Shame
Pushkin, Alexandr: Winter Evening
Donne, John : The Flea
Ginsberg, Allen: Hospital Window
Yeats, William Butler: Adam's Curse
Ponsot, Marie: Residual Paralysis
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Keepsake Hill
Blake, William: London
Eliot, T. S.: La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl)
Shakespeare, William: Under The Greenwood Tree
Milton, John: Lycidas
Stevens, Wallace: The Snow Man
Teasdale, Sara: Joy
Jonson, Ben: Still To Be Neat
Hughes, Langston: Dream Variations
Hardy, Thomas: Hap (168 Votes)
Simon, Paul: The Sound of Silence (166 Votes)
Keats, John: To Autumn
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: Break, Break, Break
Blake, William: Little Vagabond
unknown, Ballad Of Casey Jones (165 Votes)
Baudelaire, Charles: The Albatross
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: Ulysses
Pinsky, Robert: The Hearts (164 Votes)
Randall, Dudley: Memorial Wreath
Atwood, Margaret: The Landlady
Sappho: Please
Lindsay, Vachel : The Leaden-Eyed
Yeats, William Butler: Song of The Happy Shepherd
Shakespeare, William: Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun
Ponsot, Marie: Among Women
Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Ring Poem (161 Votes)
Frost, Robert: Desert Places
Skelton, John: To Mistress Margaret Hussey
Pound, Ezra: An Imortality (160 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: Paul Revere's Ride
Housman, A. E.: Along The Field As We Came By
Sandburg, Carl: Blue Island Intersection
Ginsberg, Allen: In A Baggage Room At The Greyhound
Pushkin, Alexandr: Seclusion
Coffin, Robert P.Tristram: Foxes and Graves
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: Crossing The Bar (159 Votes)
Pasternak, Boris: After A Rain
Donne, John: Thou Last (156 Votes)
Betjeman, Sir John: In Westminster Abbey
Doolittle, Hilda: Lethe
Pastan, Linda: Root Canal
Owens, Jesse: State Of Mind
Thomas, Dylan: Should Lanterns Shine
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Work Without Hope
Bly, Robert: Where We Must Look For Help (155 Votes)
Kipling, Rudyard: If
Nash, Ogden: Reflections On Ice-Breaking (Candy Is Dandy)
Thomas, Dylan: Love In The Asylum
Enright, D. J.: The Monuments of Hiroshima
Marvell, Andrew: The Garden
Hass, Robert: Song (154 Votes)
Neruda, Pablo: Animal Of Light
Shakespeare, William: When Icicles Hang By The Wall
Donne, John: The Good Morrow
Sexton, Anne: The Abortion
Frost, Robert: An Old Man's Winter Night
Lowell, Amy: A Japanese Wood-Carving
Pushkin, Alexandr: The Hills of Georgia
Heaney, Seamus: Mudvision (153 Votes)
Wordsworth, William: The Solitary Reaper:
Shakespeare, William: Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
Sandburg, Carl: The Hangman At Home
Suckling, Sir John: The Constant Lover (152 Votes)
Kizer, Carolyn: Woman Poet
Ginsberg, Allen: Mescaline
Dove, Rita: Sonnet In Primary Colors
Oppenheim, James: Saturday Night
Howe, Julia Ward: Battle-Hymn Of The Republic
Eliot, T. S.: Journey Of The Magi
Frost, Robert: The Cow In Apple Time
Noyes, Alfred: Apes And Ivory
Hodgson, Ralph: Stupidity Street
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von: On Laden Twigs
Tsvetayeva, Marina: Annunciation Eve
Brooks, Gwendolyn: The Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary
Eliot, T. S.: Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Hirshfeld, Jane: Three Times My Life Has Opened Up
Lawrence, D. H.: The Bride
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: Tears, Idle Tears
Angelou, Maya:Son To Mother
Yeats, William Butler: Never Give All The Heart
Aiken, Conrad: Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise the Rain
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: First Fig
Antin, David: Definitions For Mendy
Frost, Robert: The Sound Of Trees
Angelou, Maya: Song For The Old Ones
Oppen, George: A Language of New York
Lowell, Amy: Basket Dance
Hacker, Marilyn: Wednesday I.D. Clinic
Replansky, Naomi: Housing Shortage (151 Votes)
Bates, Katharine Lee: America the Beautiful
Ibsen, Henrik: In The Orchard
Inez, Colette: Absolving You
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Spring
Gluck, Louise: Brown Circle
Swenson, May: Innards
Dickinson, Emily: A Narrow Fellow In The Grass
Pound, Ezra: Papyrus
Loy, Mina: Three Moments In Paris
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: God's Grandeur (150 Votes)
Alta: First Pregnancy
Shelly, Percy Bysshe: When The Lamp Is Shattered (148 Votes)
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Lak Of Stedfastnesse (147 Votes)
Olds, Sharon: Sex Without Love
Belloc, Hillaire: Tarantela
Homer: The Illiad
Creeley, Robert: Kore
Meehan, Maude: Is There Life After Feminism
Owen, Wilfred: The Kind Ghosts
Hardy, Thomas: Channel Firing
Clifton, Lucille: Poem To My Uterus
Rimbaud, Arthur: Alchemy Of The Word
Baudelaire, Charles: Litany To Satan (146 Votes)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von: The Erl-King
Sassoon, Siegfried: Suicide In The Trenches
Masefield, John: Rounding The Horn
Hayden, Robert: Frederick Douglass
Herrick, Robert: Sweet Disorder (145 Votes)
Clifton, Lucille: For Delaud
Booth, Phillip: Parting
Hardy, Thomas:Her Immortality
Shakespeare, William: Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Sandburg, Carl: Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight
Donne, John: The Sun Rising
Betjeman, Sir John: The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
Thoreau, Henry David: Mist (144 Votes)
Miller, Roger: King of the Road
Stafford, William: At Cove On The Crooked River
Sitwell, Edith: The Old Nurse's Song
Pound, Ezra: Further Instructions
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: My Galley, Charged With Forgetfulness
Donne, John:The Bait
Eliot, T. S.: Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Robinson, Edwin Arlington: The Master
Crane, Steven: I Saw A Man
Graves, Robert: Lost Love
Blake, William: Ah! Sun-Flower
Suckling, Sir John: Why So Pale And Wan? (143 Votes)
Labe, Louise: While Venus Limpid Wandering In The Sky
Corso, Gregory: Ode To Coit Tower
Amis, Kingsley: Aberdarcy: Main Square
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: The Children's Hour
Lowell, Amy: Dolphins In Blue Water
Moore, Marianne: A Carriage From Sweden
Crane, Hart: The Broken Tower
Holmes, Oliver Wendell: The Last Leaf
unknown: The Unfaithful Shepherdess
Auden, W. H.:Funeral Blues:
Booth, Phillip: Like A Woman
Dove, Rita: Used
Bridges, Robert: The Philosopher To His Mistress
Poe, Edgar Allan: Israfel
Angelou, Maya: Caged Bird
Lennon, John and Paul McCartney: Norwegian Wood
Giovanni, Nikki: Mothers
Cornish, Sam: Sam's World (142 Votes)
Anna Seward: To the Right Honourable Lady Eleanor Butler
Hass, Robert: My Mother's Nipples
Aiken, Conrad: Bread And Music
Lowell, Amy: Meeting-House Hill
Eliot, T. S.: Gerontion
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning
Dunbar, Paul Laurence: The Turning Of The Babies In The Bed
Jeffers, Robinson: To The Stone-Cutters
Bukowski, Charles: Sway with Me (140 Votes)
Ammons, A. R.: Hymn
Bly, Robert: My Father At 85
Stafford, William: At The Bomb Testing Site
Hugo, Victor, Translated by A. C. Swinburne: The Poor Children
Teasdale, Sara: Barter
Levertov, Denise: Over Land To The Islands
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: The Wreck Of The Deutschland
Bridges, Robert: Nightingales
Harris, Joel Chandler: De Apple Tree
Lindsay, Vachel: I Want To Go Wandering (138 Votes)
Bishop, Elizabeth: One Art
Jong, Erica: Arse Poetica
Frost, Robert: A Brook In The City
Nash, Ogden: The Tale Of The Custard Dragon
Strand, Mark: Reading In Place
Byron, Lord: The Destruction Of Sennacherib
Carew, Thomas: Song
Coleridge, Sara: The Garden Year
Yeats, William Butler: A Poet to His Beloved
Heaney, Seamus: Crossings
Brooke, Rupert: The Soldier
Hardy, Thomas: A Satire Of Circumstance
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: On Hearing A Symphony Of Beethoven
McLeish, Archibald: The End Of The World
Silverstein, Shel: Frozen Dream
Thomas, Joyce Carol: Church Poem
Hardy, Thomas: Let Me Enjoy
Niedecker, Lorine: I Married
Snodgrass, W. D.: Monet: 'Les Nympheas'
Teasdale, Sara: Peace
Keats, John: To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses
Brodsky, Joseph:Folk Tune
Baca, Jimmy Santiago: Cloudy Day (137 Votes)
Eliot, T. S.: Lines For An Old Man
Lowell, Robert: The Drunken Fisherman
Arnold, Matthew: Self-Dependence
Rosenberg, Isaac: Dead Man's Dump
Joyce, James: I Hear An Army Charging
Nolte, Dorothy Law: Children Learn What They Live
Dickinson, Emily: If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
Sandburg, Carl: Chicago
Kipling, Rudyard: The American
Thomas, Dylan: Fern Hill
Espada, Martin: Latin Night at the Pawn Shop
Rodgers, Carolyn M.: For Sapphires (136 Votes)
Blake, William: A Poison Tree
Teasdale, Sara: Dooryard Roses
Pushkin, Alexandr: The Prophet
Dove, Rita: The House Slave
Kipling, Rudyard: Recessional
Dickinson, Emily:It's All I Have To Bring Today
Dickinson, Emily: I think To Live (135 Votes)
Ransom, John Crow: Vision By Sweetwater
Plath, Sylvia: Death & Company (133 Votes)
Dylan, Bob: Subterranean Homesick Blues (132 Votes)
Forche, Carolyn:The Recording Angel
Dryden, John : Mac Flecknoe
Griffin, Susan: I Like To Think of Harriet Tubman
Graves, Robert: The Cool Web
Wilde, Oscar: Her Voice
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Little Billee
Cummings, E. E.:May I Feel Said He
Bukowski, Charles: Three Oranges
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Go, Little Book
Wilde, Oscar: Requiescat
Sitwell, Edith: Still Falls The Rain
Byron, Lord: When We Two Parted
Ashbery, John: A Vase Of Flowers
Updike, John: Tick
Thomas, Edward: Tall Nettles
Belloc, Hillaire: The Yak
Jarrell, Randall: Eighth Air Force (131 Votes)
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: They flee from me that sometime me did seke
Yeats, William Butler: Broken Dreams
Donne, John: The Sunne Rising (129 Votes)
Pound, Ezra: The Age Demanded
Burns, Robert: To A Kiss
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: The Song of Hiawatha
Blake, William: The Clod And The Pebble
Pushkin, Alexandr: When I Have Locked Your Slender Body
Lowell, Amy: Woman's Harvest Song
Frost, Robert: Spring Pools
King, Henry: The Exequy (128 Votes)
Creeley, Robert: A Marriage
Heaney, Seamus: The Haw Lantern (127 Votes)
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Criseyde
Lowell, Robert: After the Surprising Conversions
Niedecker, Lorine: To My Pressure Pump
Silverstein, Shel: Almost Perfect
Sandburg, Carl: Three Slants Of New York
Wordsworth, William: The Rainbow
Plath, Sylvia: Aftermath
Tu Fu: Achieving A Poem While Drinking Alone
Roethke, Theodore: The Abyss
Giovanni, Nikki: Revolutionary Dreams
Dickinson, Emily:  I Was The Slightest In The House
Atwood, Margaret: This Is A Photograph of Me
Thomas, Dylan: A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London
Bronte, Emily: Remembrance
Bukowski, Charles: Eddie And Eve (126 Votes)
Neruda, Pablo: Enigmas (124 Votes)
Swinburne, A. C.: Nephelidia
Service, Robert W.: The Cremation of Sam McGee
Marvell, Andrew: The Definition of Love
Olson, Charles: Maximus
Kumin, Maxine: Life's Work
Blake, William: Little Black Boy
Rilke, Ranier Maria:Evening
Wordsworth, William: The Daffodils
Joyce, James: Finnegan's Wake
Donne, John: Bell Tolls
Poe, Edgar Allen: To One In Paradise (123 Votes)
Clifton, Lucille: At Last We Killed The Roaches
Corso, Gregory: I Miss My Dear Cats
Sexton, Anne: Her Kind (122 Votes)
Kilmer, Joyce: In Fairyland (119 Votes)
Brooke: Rupert: Song
Rilke, Rainer Maria: Death
Dickinson, Emily: A Bird Came Down The Walk (118 Votes)
Wordsworth, William: What Heavenly Smiles
Sanchez, Sonia: So This Is Our Revolution (117 Votes)
Williams, William Carlos: The Girl (115 Votes)
Booth, Philip: The Day The Tide
Teasdale, Sara: Alchemy
Plath, Sylvia: Nick And The Candlestick
Nash, Ogden: The Purist (113 Votes)
Meredith, William: The Open Sea
Bly, Robert: Those Being Eaten By America
Lowell, Robert: Mr. Edwards And The Spider
Nemerov, Howard: The Fall Again (112 Votes)
Brooks, Gwendolyn: Horse Graze
Kipling, Rudyard: The Ballad of East And West
Teasdale, Sara: In The Train
Wordsworth, William: Surprised by Joy
Arnold, Matthew: The Buried Life
Lawrence, D. H.: A White Blossom
Silverstein, Shel: Hug O' War
Dove, Rita: Flash Cards
Sassoon, Siegfried: Does It Matter?
Hughes, Langston: Brass Spittoons
Aiken, Conrad: The Puppet Dreams
Wright, James: The Branch Will Not Break
Strand, Mark: Keeping Things Whole
Smith, William Jay: Crocodile
Soto, Gary: Oranges
Harmon, William: Fallacy Of Experience
Snodgrass, W. D.: April Inventory
Rich, Adrienne:The Roof Walker (111 Votes)
Hoff, Benjimin: The Tao Of Pooh
Labe, Louise: O Handsome Chestnut Eyes, Evaisive Gaze
Dickey, James:  The Common Grave
Carlile, Henry: The Grief Of Our Genitals (110 Votes)
Alta: I Never Saw A Man In A Negligee
Ginsberg, Allen : In Back Of The Real
Clifton, Lucille: Miss Rosie:   commentary
Williams, William Carlos: Pastoral
Doolittle, Hilda: Sheltered Garden
Rimbaud, Arthur: Tear
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von: Prometheus
Shakespeare, William: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold
Yeats, William Butler: I Made My Song A Coat
Browning, Robert: Among the Ruins
Baring-Gould, Sabine: Onward, Christian Soldiers
Angelou, Maya: Equality:
Yeats, William Butler: When You Are Old
Loy, Mina: Love Songs
Baudelaire, Charles: Metamorphosis of The Vampire
unknown: Lizzie Borden With An Ax
Lowell, Amy : Lilacs
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: The Isle
Poe, Edgar Allan: Alone
Simic, Charles: County Fair (109 Votes)
Tung, Mao Tse: Tower Of The Yellow Crane
unknown: Frankie And Johnny
Ammons, A. R.: Anxiety's Prosody
Williams, Miller: Getting Experience (108 Votes)
Shiki: "Turning From Watching The Moon" (106 Votes)
Jong, Erica: Divorce (105 Votes)
Bukowski, Charles: Hell Hath No Fury
Brooks, Gwendolyn: Steam Song (104 Votes)
Brodsky, Joseph: The Funeral Of Bobo
Ransome, John Crow: Blue Girls (103 Votes)
Disch, Thomas: ABECEDARY
Dove, Rita: Fish In The Stone
Silverstein, Shel: Batty
Teasdale, Sara: The Long Hill
Williams, William Carlos: Breakfast (102 Votes)
Ashbery, John: One Coat Of Paint
Masefield, John: Sea Fever
Piercy, Marge: To The Pay Toilet (101 Votes)
Clampitt, Amy: A Minor Tremor
Snyder, Gary: Walking The New York Bedrock Alive In The Sea Of Information
Whitman, Walt: Vigil Strange I Kept On The Field One Night
Levertov, Denise: Ikon: The Harrowing Of Hell
Kavanaugh, Patrick: Kleomedes
Ginsberg, Allen: Who Will Take Over The Universe?
Bryant, Dana: Heat
Brooks, Gwendolyn: Piano After War
Morrison, Jim: We All Live In The City
Swenson, May: Motherhood
Hass, Robert: Thin Air
Sexton, Anne: Lament
Alta: I Have No Bunny Tail On My Behind (100 Votes)
Yeats, William Butler: To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No
Heaney, Seamus: A Shooting Script (99 Votes)
Shakespeare, William: Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow
Hughes, Langston: The Dream Keeper
Lindsay, Vachel: The Old Horse In The City
Eyeglasses: Tom Clark (98 Votes)
Merriam, Eve: Which Washington
Stevenson, Robert Lewis: Block City
Bukowski, Charles: The Man With The Beautiful Eyes
Nemerov, Howard: Storm Windows
Plath, Sylvia: Mary's Song (97 Votes)
Onitsura: "In Spring The Chirping Frogs"
Justice, Donald:  On A Painting By Patient B Of The Independence State Hospital For The Insane
Randall, Dudley: Black Poet, White Critic (94 Votes)
Levertov, Denise: The Springtime
Dickinson, Emily: The Soul Selects Her Own Society
Ammons, A. R.: Loss (93 Votes)
Ginsberg, Allen: Waking In New York
Ashbery, John: Some Trees
Kinnell, Galway: Flowering-Herding Pictures On Mount Monadnock (92 Votes)
Merwin, W. S.: Departure's Girl-Friend
Chin, Ch'iu: How Many Wise Men And Heroes
Larkin, Philip: Aubade
Heaney, Seamus: Death Of A Naturalist
Jong, Erica: The Teacher (90 Votes)
Loy, Mina: Poe
Wheatley, Phillis: On Being Brought From Africa To America (89 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: I Felt A Funeral In My Brain (88 Votes)
Labe, Louise: From That First Flash When Awful Love Took Flame
Plath, Sylvia: Snakecharmer
Frost, Robert: The Black Cottage
Moore, Marianne: Poetry
Tsvetayeva, Marina: We Shall Not Escape Hell (86 Votes)
Dove, Rita: The Boast
Kazuko, Shiraishi: Phallus (85 Votes)
Levertov, Denise: Adam's Complaint
Mendelstam, Osip: Whoever Finds A Horseshoe
Rilke, Rainer Maria: The Youth Dreams
Meehan, Maude: Gift For My Mother's 90^th Birthday
Stevens, Wallace: Dance Of The Macabre Mice
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Escape At Bedtime
Updike, John: A Different Ending
Creeley, Robert: Age
Towne, Henson: Around The Corner
Estep, Maggie: The Stupid Jerk I'm Obsessed With (84 Votes)
Foley, James: Drop A Pebble In The Water
Merrill, James: The Book Of Ephraim
Stafford, William: Father And Son
Swenson, May: Women
Smith, Stevie: The Weak Monk
Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
Chiyo: After A Long Winter, Giving (83 Votes)
Enright, D. J.: The Noodle-Vender's Flute
Spenser, Edmund: Epithalamion
Lomax, Pearl Cleage: Jesus Drum
Doolittle, Hilda: Pear Tree
Kizer, Carolyn: Bitch
McKay, Claude: Spring in New Hampshire
Silverstein, Shel: Just Me, Just Me
Alta: Euch, Are You Having Your Period?
Nash, Ogdan: The Rhinoceros
Bass, Ellen: For Barbara, Who Said She Couldn't Visualize Two Women Together
Clampitt, Amy: A Baroque Sunburst
Alegria, Claribel: Search
Fuertes, Gloria: Human Geography (82 Votes)
Niedecker, Lorine: Laundromat
Williams, William Carlos: The Descent
Ginsberg, Allen: I Am A Victim Of The Telephone (81 Votes)
Williams, Tennessee: Kitchen Door Blues
Kizer, Carolyn: Through A Glass Eye, Lightly
Stone, Ruth: Liberation
Axel, Brett: On The Occasion Of My Son Turning The Age I Was (80 Votes)
Milton, John: On His Blindness
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Frost At Midnight
Bishop, Elizabeth: The Fish
Ammons, A. R.: Corson's Inlet
Herbert, George: The Collar
Levertov, Denise: The Roamer (78 Votes)
Vaughan, Henry: The World
Sidney, Sir Philip: Ye Goatherd Gods
Brooks, Gwendolyn: My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell
Olds, Sharon: The Solution (77 Votes)
Oliver, Mary: The Honey Tree (76 Votes)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: Christ Climbed Down
Yeats, William Butler: Host Of The Air (73 Votes)
Holman, Bob: Modern Lovers (70 Votes)
Wokoski, Diane: Belly Dancer
Frost, Robert: Out, Out (69 Votes)
Ginsberg, Allen and Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady: Pull My Daisy
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Friends And Enemies
Nash, Ogden: The Boy Who Laughed At Santa Claus
Frost, Robert: To A Young Wretch
Crapsey, Adelaide: Triad
Oppenheim, James: The Runner In The Skys
Cornish, Sam: Your Mother
Swinburne, A. C.: The Sea
Eliot, T. S.: Morning At The Window
Joyce, James: The Noise Of Waters
Cummings, E. E.: Once Like A Spark
Merton, Thomas: St. Malachy (68 Votes)
Levine, Philip: What Work Is (67 Votes)
Cooper, Jane: In The House Of The Dying
Gilbert, Sandra: My Grandmother In Paris
Sexton, Anne: Rowing
Carroll, Lewis: The Mad Gardener's Song (66 Votes)
Song, Cathy: The Youngest Daughter
Cortez, Jane: I Am New York City (65 Votes)
Piercy, Marge: Song Of The Fucked Duck
Cohen, Leonard: Famous Blue Raincoat
Guthrie, Arlo: The Motorcycle Song (63 Votes)
Herrick, Robert: His Fairwell To Sack
Lorde, Audre: Coal
Shelly, Percy Bysshe: To A Sky-Lark
Stevens, Wallace: The Idea Of Order At Key West
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: God's World
Lennon, John and Paul McCartney: Penny Lane (61 Votes)
Erdrich, Louise: Fooling God
Loy, Mina: At The Door Of The House
Heaney, Seamus: Personal Helicion
Plath, Sylvia: Morning Song
Roethke, Theodore: In A Dark Time
Kinnell, Galway: Wait
Valentine, Jean: The Free Abandonment Blues
Sirowitz, Hal: Sons (60 Votes)
Kumin, Maxine: The Hermit Has A Visitor
Poe, Edgar Allan: A Dream Within A Dream
Atwood, Margaret: Habitation
Meredith, William: The Illiterate
Crane, Hart: The Mango Tree
Hugo, Victor: A Sunset
Angelou, Maya: On The Pulse Of Morning
Brautigan, Richard: -2
Doolittle, Hilda: Leda
Marvell, Andrew: The Fairest Singer
Eberhart, Richard: A Ship Burning and a Comet, All in One Day
Justice, Donald: Men at 40
Rios, Alberto: Saints, And Their Care
Swenson, May: The Centaur
Browne, Jackson: For Everyman (59 Votes)
Knight, Ethridge: Feeling Fucked Up
Larkin, Philip: Born Yesterday
Jerrell, Randall: The Woman At The Washington Zoo
Szymborska, Wislawawa: Conversation With a Stone (58 Votes)
Sebastian, John, and Mark Sebastian and Steve Boone: Summer In The City (57 Votes)
Brooks, Gwendolyn: Boy Breaking Glass
Frost, Robert: A Passing Glance (56 Votes)
Holman, Bob: One Flight Up
Griffin, Susan: An Answer To A Man's Question, "What Can I Do About Women's Liberation?"
Sandburg, Carl: Sketch Of A Poet
Schulman, Grace: Burial Of A Fisherman In Hydra
Algarin, Miguel: Inside Control: My Tongue
Thoreau, Henry David: The old Marlborough Road
Moore, Marianne: We Drink Gin? (55 Votes)
Niedecker, Lorine: Popcorn Cover
Whitman, Walt: We two boys together clinging
Merwin, W. S.: Beggars And Kings (54 Votes)
Blackman, Nicole: Daughter
Corman, Cid: Deceased (53 Votes)
McKennitt, Loreena: All Souls Night
Yau, John: Chinese Villanelle
Rich, Adrienne: Ideal Landscape
Dickinson, Emily: Faith Is A Fine Invention
Harjo, Joy: Mercy
Ginsberg, Allen: The Lion For Real (52 Votes)
Blackman, Paul: The Watchers
Jonson, Ben: On My First Son
Plath, Sylvia: Mushrooms
Donne, John: The Ecstasy (51 Votes)
Carbo, Nick: The Pretty Boys of Ermita
Smith, Stevie: Fafnir and the knights
McPherson, Sandra: Pregnancy
Berryman, John: The Dispossessed
Apollinaire, Guillaume: The Pretty Red-Head
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Success (50 Votes)
Gilbert, W. S.: When I Was a Lad (from H.M.S. Pinafore)
Szymborska, Wislawa: In Praise of My Sister (48 Votes)
Patchen, Kenneth: In Judgment of the Leaf (46 Votes)
Olds, Sharon: She
Browning, Robert: A Woman's Last Word
Roethke, Theodore: Vernal Sentiment
Wagoner, David: Staying Alive
Pinero, Miguel: The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito
Blake, William: The Sick Rose (45 Votes)
Nash, Ogden: Don't Cry, Darling, It's Blood Alright
Stills, Steven: For What It's Worth
Rimbaud, Arthur: Season In Hell
Merwin, W. S.: Seperation (44 Votes)
Wylie, Elinor: The Eagle And The Mole
Cummings, E. E.: Since Feelings Is First
Arnold, Matthew: Growing Old
Wires: Philip Larkin
Basho, Matsuo: "Oh That Summer Moon"
Levertov, Denise: Merritt Parkway
Yeats, William Butler: The Song of Wondering Aengus
Plath, Sylvia: Lesbos (43 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: Fame is a Bee (42 Votes)
Stevens, Wallace: The Glass Of Water
Clifton, Lucille: Holy Night
Viereck, Peter: Hide and Seek (40 Votes)
Moore, Marianne: The Steeple Jack
Bishop, Morris: Ambition
Lennon, John and Paul McCartney: A Day In The Life (39 Votes)
Auden, W. H.: Prime
Spiro, Peter: Cause and Effect (37 Votes)
Labe, Louise: After An Age When Thunderbolts And Hail
Updike, John: Food
Duncan, Robert: Often I Am Permitted To Return To A Meadow
Bogan, Louise: Women (36 Votes)
Evans, Mari: The Rebel
Gray, Thomas: Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat
Li Ho: A Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair
Kizer, Carolyn: The Intruder
Olds, Sharon: The Subway
Keats, John: The Eve of St. Agnes
Tate, Allen: The Wolves (35 Votes)
Clifton, Lucille: The Lost Baby Poem
Kelly, Robert: Last Light
Stevens, Wallace: Life Is Motion
Cohen, Leonard: Everybody Knows
Scott, Winfield: Between Ironwood and the sea (34 Votes)
Wakoski, Diane: The Pink Dress
Rieu, E. V.: The Lesser Lynx
Sexton, Anne: The Risk
Larkin, Philip: High Windows
Kizer, Caroline: The Great Blue Heron
Patmore, Coventry: The Revelation
Ackerman, Diane: A Fine, Private Place (33 Votes)
Giovanni, Nikki: Nikki-Rosa
Rios, Alberto: Seniors (31 Votes)
Simic, Charles: Concerning My Neighbors, The Hittites
Morgan, Robert: Mountain Graveyard (30 Votes)
Starbuck, George: Of Late
Wilber, Richard: A Late Aubade:
Hayden, Robert: Those Winter Sundays
Simpson, Louis: American Poetry (29 Votes)
Fainlight, Ruth: Flower Feet
Piercy, Marge: The Secretary Chant
Larkin, Philip: A Study of Reading Habits
Ignatow, David: Last Night
Whitman, Walt: Cavalry Crossing A Ford
Kumin, Maxine: Morning Swim (28 Votes)
Trowbridge, William: Enter Dark Stranger (27 Votes)
Smith, Stevie: Valuable
Kennedy, X. J.: First Confession
Francis, Robert: Catch
Sexton, Anne: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Grennan, Eamon: Bat (26 Votes)
Machan, Katharyn Howd: Hazel Tells Laverne
Barreca, Regina: Nighttime Fires
Auden, W. H.: Funeral Blues
Kooser, Ted: Selecting A Reader
Suess, Dr.: Oh, The Places You'll Go (25 Votes)
Sexton, Anne: Some Foreign Letters
Ignatow, David: The Bagel
Byron, Lord: Lara (24 Votes)
Dickinson, Emily: Ample Make This Bed
Cummings, E. E.: She Being Brand
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Counting-Out Rhyme
Kaufman, Bob: Who Has Seen The Wind
Axel, Brett: At Radiology
Bernstein, Charles: Harbor Of Illusion
Donne, John: Lover's Infiniteness (23 Votes)
Keats, John: When I Have Fears I May Cease To Be
Ginsberg, Allen: Death To Van Gogh's Ear!
Waldrop, Rosmarie: The Perplexing Habit Of Falling
Ginsberg, Allen: Sunflower Sutra
Zukofsky, Louis: Reading and Talking
Codrescu, Andrei: The Inner Source
Sirowitz, Hal: War In The House
Larbaud, Valery: The Mask
Whittier, John Greenleaf: Barefoot Boy
Brooke, Rubert: The Dead
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Goblin Market
Corso, Gregory: Marriage
McDonnell, Merry: Multiple Listings
Plath, Sylvia: Doomsday (22 Votes)
Corgan, Billy: Rocket
Rexroth, Kenneth: Time is the Mercy of Eternity
Lipsitz, Lou: Prospect Beach
Yeats, William Butler: The man who dreamed of Faeryland Pound, Ezra: The Garden
Lowell, Amy: Patterns Bryant, William Cullen: Thanatopsis
Oppenheimer, Joel: Leave It To Me Blues (21 Votes)
Yeats, William Butler: The Stolen Child
Plath, Sylvia: Mirror (20 Votes)
Waldman, Anne: Fast Speaking Woman (19 Votes)
Baudelaire, Charles: Bien Loin D'ici
Pound, Ezra: Pine Boat Ashift on Drift of Tide
Dunbar, Paul Laurence: We Wear the Mask (18 Votes)
Brecht, Bertolt: The Burning Of Books
Swift, Johnathan: Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift
Lorca, Garcia: Poem of the Deep Song (17 Votes)
Browning, Robert: Fra Lippo Lippi
Olds, Sharon: First Sex
Baraka, Amiri: Black Art
Bunting, Basil: Briggflatts (16 Votes)
Whitman, Walt: Crossing Brooklyn Bridge
Graham, Jorie: Dream of the Unified Field
Lawson, David: No Great Matter
Verlaine, Paul: Clair de Lune
Browning, Robert: Memorabilia
Kunitz, Stanley: Welcome The Wrath
Ginsberg, Allen: To Aunt Rose
Herbert, George: The Collar
Stein, Gertrude: Stanzas in Meditation
Snyder, Gary: Work To Do Toward Town
Crane, Hart: Voyages
Keats, John: The Eve of St. Agnes
Bishop, Elizabeth: Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
Snodgrass, W. D. : April Inventory
Ralegh, Sir Walter: The Lie (15 Votes)
O'Hara, Frank: Memorial Day 1950
Kunitz, Stanley: The Portrait
Borges, Jorge Luis: The Golem
Pinero, Miguel: Black Woman With Blonde Wig On
Axel, Brett: Two Shits
Miyazawa, Kenji: Spring and Asura
Stein, Gertrude: Tender Buttons (14 Votes)
Donne, John: No Man Is An Island
Phillips, Carl: Arcadia
Norse, Harold: In November
Jordan, June: I must Become a Menace to my Enimies
Spicer, Jack: Poem for Bird and Myself
Burkard, Michael: Ruby for Grief
Sexton, Anne: Sylvia's Death (13 Votes)
Carson, Anne: The Glass Essay
Shikibu, Izumi: At The Temple Ceremony For Her Departed Daughter
Forche, Carolyn: Reunion
Andrews, Bruce: Mars 5
Kenyon, Jane: Let Evening Come
Rexroth, Kenneth: Your Birthday In The California Mountains
Paston, Linda: To A Daughter Leaving Home
McHugh, Heather: What He Said (12 Votes)
Cisneros, Sandra: My Wicked Wicked Ways
Lux, Thomas: I Think You're Wonderful
Troupe, Quincy: The Other Night
Ouzoonian, Amy: Nuyorican Tales
Hacker, Marilyn: Cancer Winter
Rainey, Clebo: At The Bar
Moore, Honor: Resonance

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